Apple's five worst quality control failures


Mark Zuckerberg wants to hire a well-known executive to help him run Facebook, BoomTown reports. It's like when Google founders Brin and Page hired a then-obscure Eric Schmidt away from Novell, except Zuckerberg wants to keep the CEO title. "It has to be someone who does not overshadow Mark," a source told BoomTown,…
Apple's iPod may command 77 percent of the U.S. MP3 player market, but that dominance has yet to carry over internationally, Apple marketing exec Greg Joswiak told Fortune. In Europe, for example, the iPod has 58 percent market share in the U.K., but only 28 percent in Germany and France.
Back in October we hypothesized that Apple was going to use iTunes to securely deliver apps to iPhone and iPod Touch users. We thought this would work in the same way that users currently buy and download ringtones, songs and TV shows: "Apple is building an iTunes-based platform to securely deliver apps to users. From…